Sentence examples for a higher thing from inspiring English sources

So it wasn't meant to be a higher thing; it really was meant to bring a smile, nothing more, nothing less, as described.

"When you stop aiming for those small things and aim for a higher thing, to be uplifted, that's when the world reflects abundance to you," they said.

76. "Instruction … creates powerful and dominating interest in nature and in human nature, especially the latter; … instruction which, by the creation of an apperception organ, replaces sensualism by a sensibility to higher things" (Hayward 1907: 57).

Val had talked about Fred Harper (the boys doing the Oxbridge entrance called him Fred) as if he were a portal to higher things, yet here he was chaffing and prodding about work like any other teacher.

I'm just trying to make the high-carb thing they're eating on the run into a high-protein thing".

It's a high-low thing".

'It feels like a high-risk thing to do.

"It's a high-tech thing," Diana said nonchalantly.

Come on, it's an homage to those old Coppertone ads!" It's a high-low thing.

It's kind of a high-end thing".

"It's not a high school thing, it's a character flaw.